A quick search reveals http://www.noip.com/, and I'm sure they'll be more. Anyway isn't this supposed to be a stopgap before IPV6 means we can all have permanent static IPS?!
I've been using ZoneEdit for a long time. They've changed their business model slightly. Don't know if they still offer as many free options any more, but they have been great for me for over 10 years now!
It is obvious from the internals of systemd that it's designed and written by B grade talent.
I represent that!!
Yes, yes, just as Neil Armstrong and Harrison Schmidt returned to Earth. But with any luck, there are people who are alive today who will help to settle the Moon - and die there of old age. Humanity must either continue out to the other planets, and to the planets of other stars, or our race will die here in the cradle of Earth the next time a BIG rock hits the Earth, we will become extinct. I'm a big believer in humanity not becoming extinct.
The ultimate "space exploration is immoral" argument boils down to one of two things. Either you're a coward, and think all humans should be cowards, or you hate humanity and APPROVE of the idea of human extinction. Because if we sit here long enough, it WILL happen. It's a statistical certainty.
The less-sane of the commenters here seem to think that we're about to blast off for Mars tomorrow. It's not going to happen; we don't have any rockets. We can't even send more Americans to the International Space Station, now that NASA has decided to cut off cooperation with the Russians. But by the time we _can_ go to Mars, we'll be ready to live there - for a long time. Will it be ten years? Thirty? Fifty? Hell, I'm astonished that we haven't even been back to the Moon in the last 40 years. We could be on Mars NOW, if we had wanted to, in 1980.
So, let's start NOW. It won't be easy, it won't be cheap, and it won't be entirely safe - but nothing worthwhile ever is. People died learning about electricity. Marie Curie died learning about radium. People died learning how to fly, and people died learning how to dive, and people die every day in learning how to drive. People will die learning how to build lunar habitats, and learning how to land on Mars, and how to build homes there. And a lot more people WON'T die, and we'll learn what we need to know to settle Mars, and to build starships.
And just as it has always done, the knowledge that we gain in doing these things and going those places will make life easier and safer for you cowards who stay behind.
I'm not saying that we should not be preparing such a mission. I am just saying that we should not send anyone on a one-way trip without careful consideration. Human beings are very fickle. Someone who wants that one way trip now may change their mind in two weeks. Besides, there may be resources on Mars that we want to bring back to Earth anyway, so it will become more economically feasible if we can send raw materials back to the Earth.
My mobile provider (3, in the UK) has started rolling out a thing that lets you use your inclusive minutes and data allowance in other countries without any extra charge (the costs if you go over those limits are pretty dire). It was actually cheaper for me to use data on my mobile when I visit the US than it was for the people I was visiting, on my last trip. I think they've seen the writing on the wall and started making these agreements long before they were needed. They're able to do this and charge 3p/minute for calls, 2p/text and 1p/MB for data (pre-pay - if you get a bundle and buy in bulk then things are cheaper, but the bundles are time limited).
Just got back from a trip out of the US. With T-mobile I had free text and data in three different countries but the cost for a voice call was $0.20 a minute. Of course, with free data, I could use my voip service to make calls at $0.01 per minute.
By your standard, the Plymouth and Jamestown colonies were "suicide missions"; the people who boarded the Mayflower never expected to come back.
The first people that went to the new world did come back, though. Christopher Columbus didn't just hang out in Hispanola for the rest of his life. The people who went to Jamestown and Plymouth had the capability of coming back if those so chose. In fact, some early colonists did just that. There is a huge difference.
I'd be happy just to get a good rearview camera on my motorbike. All I get to see in the mirrors are my elbows...
And that, my friend, is why I ride my motorcycle in rain, snow. sleet and hail. God I have sexy elbows...
What sort of severance package do I get?
More fired. This isn't wall street!
Your benefits package sucks. I quit.
The reason they don't take off is because they are niche.
My proof-reader is fired.
What sort of severance package do I get?
In other news I stopped wearing a watch back in the eighties when my beeper stated telling the time. My iPhone 5s has a motion sensor so no need to wear anything for use with FitBit and fits nicely in my pocket. Plus I use an iPhone wallet case so often I don't even carry a purse when shopping. Last time I want is even more crap to carry.
I love a good watch. They are stylish and much more convenient to use rather than having to reach into my pocket to check the time. This is especially true when I am trying to be discreet during a meeting, date, or while listening to a coworker's inane babbling. There are times when I cannot wear a watch, though, and I am happy that I have my phone as a fallback.
The holy grail for FTA is finding "wild feeds" - temporary uplinks from site to a network (think breaking news). You can find some serious hilarity here sometimes. But the feeds come and go in a matter of quarter hours, so they're tougher to find.
I watched the Columbine shooting news coverage live on one of these wild feeds. They showed things that did not air on TV (victims trying to escape and leaving blood trails, etc). Not exactly what I wanted to see, but the ability to watch these things was interesting. The news anchor bloopers and such can be interesting too. I've caught a rare sports feed (15+ years ago) and its always interesting to see what the camera men are up to when the commercials are airing. Overall, though, I agree that it is too much work to actually use this to watch TV. It's not like the golden days when you could watch network shows the night before they aired for the rest of the country.
I've got one, I've got a 2TB collection of data that I regularly syphon files from when I am traveling. It is easy and works great, I don't need to leave a PC running (draining my wallet through the power company) to access all the data since it is a low-power device. It is as fast as my internet speed and costs nothing for the service.
I built a fanless Core i3 Ivy Bridge machine that, according to my Kill-A-Watt, uses about 10W unless its really cranking out some computations for me. It runs an L2TP over IPSec VPN server that allows me to remotely connect to my machine from any device, including my iPad or phone. I have a virtual machine that runs a linux file server on it, and one that runs a windows host for RDP. I was originally running all of this on one of the original Atom boards but I found myself in need of upgrading.
The overall cost of building the computer from scratch was around $400 (Motherboard, CPU, RAM). I repurposed an existing SSD for its boot drive (Intel drive that uses 0.125W), and then a 1TB mechanical drive for storage. My off-the-top-of-my-head calculations put my electricity cost at about $11 a year.
I use ZoneEdit for DNS services and my router automatically updates the IP address the moment that it changes. My ISP changes my IP address about once or twice a year. I spend about 2 hours a year on security updates and other system maintenance.
Why did I set up a system like this with RDP capabilities? I used to spend a lot of time in hotels and I do not trust hotel WiFi. I'd also travel internationally and could not always access the services I wanted to access remotely. I sometimes used the VPN connection to buy products at a better fair (did you know that British Rail gives you a better price on train tickets if you purchase from the US instead of the UK?). Most of all, I have a secure network with which I can do all of my online banking, emailing, and bill-paying while on the road. I maintain a similar box at my parents that I use to remotely administer and repair their computers from across the world (assuming they can boot them). Totally worth it to have a real machine, IMHO.
I read the paper and while the approach of learning a representation for faces, and then classifying in that new space whether the face is the same as model is sound, the representation is trained on a closed dataset (the 4m faces from facebook).
So it means that there is no way for the scientific community to check whether the results are correct or not. The results in the paper lack a comparison to a reproducible result, like using the youtube or faces in the wild datasets to train the representation, and then report results given that representation. This way researchers could validate the approach.
I would never have accepted such paper if I were to review it.
I don't believe them anyway. It rarely suggests the right names for the people in the photos that I upload. I only upload pictures of specific groups of people, and they are all somewhat similar pictures. So If its 97.5% accurate then I must account for most of the 2.5% of the inaccuracies.
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
